Category: Student Artwork

These posts show student artwork from our Online Art Courses and the artwork that students produce while working on them. Learning how to paint or draw, graphic design, colour theory, Chinese brush painting, history of art …and more!

Caitlin’s Teddy…

Young artist Catlin, who is studying our Drawing for Children Course…steals the show today! Isn’t this wonderful!

Yvonne Ryves – Coloured Pencil Bottle

Here we have a coloured pencil drawing of a bottle and a wine glass by Yvonne Ryves. We find that its quite often helpful for our students to see artwork and the photo of the objects that the student has worked…

Seana Kozar – Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma

Maggie has emailed us a wonderful illustration to add to the blog today, by student Seana Kozar. Seana Said… For the black-and-white texture piece I created a helter-skelter from an Arial bottle. We didn’t have helter-skelters in Canada, so I decided…

Edward Javier – Oil Painting Course

Edward Javier is currently working on our Oil Painting Course under the guidance of professional oil painter and tutor Alan Dedman. The object of this exercise was to paint a view across an interior, through a door or window and…

Mel Newing – collars & dog tongues!

My name is Mel Newing and I am currently studying the Pet Portraits Diploma Course tutored by Galye Mason.  The studies below are for Assignment 4 and I have added a work in progress and the final photo of the…

Paul Ward – Figures

Below is new oil painting that I am particularly pleased with. Having always shied away from figures this is my second attempt in the Landscape Painting Diploma course. I think it captures the mood and cold of the day and hopefully…

Jatinder Ghataora – Cartooning Artwork

Jatinder Ghataora has recently completed our Cartooning Diploma Course and Jatinder chats below about a few of the pieces completed for the course. Captain America: My niece wanted a picture of a friend in a Captain America costume. She sent me…

Hilde Orye – Botanical Painting

Shevaun Doherty, our very talented tutor for the Botanical Painting Diploma Course, has received these fabulous paintings from one of her students, Hilde Orye. Hilda is experienced in drawing and painting however is just beginning to use watercolour. ​Aren’t they wonderful? These are for…

Agathe Morisse – Illustrating Children’s Books

My name is Agathe Morisse and I am currently taking the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with Maggy Roberts. Here are the first submissions I sent to Maggy over the week-end. I’m waiting for her feedback. Exciting and scary at the…

Maria Lusser – Beginners Drawing Course

My name is Maria Lusser and I am currently taking the Beginner’s Drawing Course tutored by Monika Cilmi.  As part of the course students are asked to submit drawings with increasing complexity and difficulty made with different media such as…

Daphne Wright – Painting Portraits

Daphne Wright, who is working on our Portrait Painting Art Course, has created a preparatory study along with a finished watercolour painting for one of her exercises. We love the feel that Daphne has created within this piece. The expression she has achieved has a…

Alison Owen – Photography Course

Alison Owen has taken two beautiful photographs which we have added below. Alison is currently working on the Photography Diploma Course with Rona Cox. These photographs each deal with very different subjects and techniques. If you are struggling with your photography, why…

Artemis Rigas – Learning to Draw

We have a lovely collection of drawings for today blog post by student Artemis Rigas who is working on the Learn to draw course. Artemis has been experimenting with light and shade, tonal variations, creating texture with his range of graphite…

Elisabeth Planella – Oil painting

Elisabeth Planella, studying our oil painting course,  has created a very realistic painting of her art materials. It has been very well rendered using oil paints and the colours Elizabeth has used are superb. The main colours used here are…

Beata Mostowska – Just the right home…

Congratulations Beata Mostowska on creating a superb illustration for the study ‘Just the right home’ on our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma!

Nicola Drake – Still Life

Today’s blog post is really interesting as it not only shows Nicola Drakes final painting but we can also show her preliminary study. Nicola is studying our Still Life Course and the object here was to experiment with neutral tones. Nicola has…

Belinda Cullen – Watercolour!

Student Belinda Cullen has create the most wonderful watercolour painting which you can see below. We love the way that Belinda has created very soft wet in wet washes using a limited pallet.  Belinda has also utilised the light of…

Fiona Levings – Children’s Illustration Course

This fantastic illustration was created by student Fiona Levings. Maggy Roberts sent this over to the office along with Fiona’s comments about her Illustration. This has made us all laugh and we are thrilled to be able to share it with…

Shuddhodhan Mane

An excellent watercolour study for todays post by Portrait Course student Shuddhodhan Mane. We love the bold strokes and vivid colours, they make for a very three dimensional portrait. The skin tones have a wonderful warm glow. We also appreciate the…

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Below is a superb drawing by Coloured Pencil Course student Mike Foley. He has achieved excellent lighting within this scene. The use of bright / light colours and dark shadows and tones on the foreground branch, really exudes a summery feel. Possibly a…

Galina Arthur Portraiture Painting Online Art Course

Galina Arthur produced some amazing artwork while studying on the Portraiture Painting Diploma Online Art Course. These two paintings in acrylics show Galina working and practicing with the medium along with experimenting with colour for skin tones and clothing. Texture…

Monique Bailey – Distinction!

Monique Bailey who studied with our fantastic tutor Spencer Hill on the Digital Illustration Diploma Course, has received her diploma. She was awarded a distinction for her superb artwork and achievements throughout the course. Monique had a photograph taken of her…

Burcu Alisan – Illustrating Children’s Books

Tutor Maggy Roberts has sent through another of her students pieces of artwork for inclusion on our blog. It is a wonderful illustration from student Burcu Alisan, who is studying our Illustrating Children’s books Course. Burcu said… With this course I am…

Charlotte Kaill – Illustrating Children’s Books

My name is CharlotteKaill and I am currently taking a course with the London Art College. I am half way through my Children’s Book Illustration course with Maggy Roberts and i’m loving it. It has helped me imagine characters and stories…

Briony Dixon – Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma

Here is a fantastic scary poem illustration created by London Art College student Briony Dixon. Briony is currently working towards her diploma on one of our most popular courses – Illustrating Children’s Books Online Art Course. The course is tutors…

Zlati Peneva – Photography Diploma

Zlati Peneva has been working through our Photography Diploma Course with professional photographer and tutor Rona Cox. Zlati has taken this amazing photo and we thought it was the perfect photo to help encourage and inspire our students to pick up…

Student Angela Watson…..

My Journey Continued… Note: In June 2016 I wrote the blog post Illustrating Children’s Books for the London Art College. You may wish to read that first as this follows on from there. If anyone does read it, I would…

Emily Miller – Tribute to Richard Adams

My name is Emily Miller and I am a student with the London Art College. This is my tribute to Richard Adams who died at the end of last year. Watership Down was such a big part of my childhood,…

Pam Cherry – Still Life

Student Pam Cherry has been busy! Her paintings below of varying objects for her still life projects are coming along very well. Each object has been painting beautifully, particularly the texture of the bears jumper in the second painting. If can…

Sufia Rahman – Painting Portraits

A fantastic piece of artwork for this Monday morning! This pastel portrait was created by student Sufia Rahman who is studying on our portraiture painting course. We love the way Sufia has rendered the top of the head and forehead…

Childrens Illustration – Charlotte Kaill

We have been sent a wonderful illustration from tutor Maggy Roberts by one of her Children’s Illustration Course students Charlotte Kaill. Congratulations Charlotte on a fantastic illustration!    

Photography – Josafine Tinkaus

We don’t often blog students work from the photography course and we probably should! Perhaps that’s our New Years resolution for 2017! This beautiful photo was sent to us by Photography Diploma tutor Rona Cox. It was taken by student Josafine Tinkaus…

Beginners Drawing – Edith Steinberg

Student Edith Steinberg has been working through the Beginners Drawing Course and this is one of her drawings from the submitted exercises. A quote from the beginners drawing course tutor is below…we hope that it helps and inspires our beginners reading…

Still Life – John Peace

John Peace has been working on the Still life course with tutor Alan Dedman. John has created two superb paintings for his first set and his introductory letter is below. We hope that our prospective students can gain some confidence from…

Botanical Art Course – Mollie Melhuish

My name is Mollie and I have recently completed the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with the London Art College. I have received my Diploma Certificate with distinction from tutor Shevaun Doherty. It was a new medium for me but one I…

Two Coloured Pencil Students!

Monika Cilmi is the tutor for our London Art College Coloured Pencil Course. She has sent us a superb coloured pencil drawing by student Mike Bingham and a testimonial by Lee Lillie. Monika said – Mike Bingham has no experience with freehand drawing or coloured…

Pet Portraits by Karen Bruce

My name is Karen, I started painting four years ago when I was 51, and particularly enjoy drawing and painting animals of any kind. I completed the London Art College Watercolour Course earlier this year and on completion enrolled immediately on…

Happy New Year!

Christy Chan

Christy Chan has recently completed our Coloured Pencil Drawing Course with Monika Cilmi. This is one of her final assignments and she was hoping it would be used on our website and blog. We are thrilled to be able to feature it…

Suneeta Kulkarni

A Merry Christmas and a Great 2017 to all at the wonderful London Art College! Here’s my submission for the blog, hoping it finds a spot. Suneeta.   We were delighted to add Suneeta’s artwork to our blog and her painting beautiful!…

Malgosia Kozicka

Malgosia Kozicka completed her course in Digital painting with tutor Spencer Hill in November. She has created this wonderful festive painting for us to show on our blog. We wish Malgosia all the best with her future paintings and career!

A Bah Humbug Cartoon by Gethin

Smile at student Gethin’s cartoon strip called Bah Humbug! We love it!

Festive Wishes!

We hope that all of our readers and students are having a lovely festive season. We also hope that you received some fabulous art materials from Santa this year! Student Pete Levy has created this amazing illustration which we just…

Merry Christmas to All!

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our students and readers a very Merry Christmas. We hope that Santa leaves you lots of art materials under your tree this year! Thank you to student Inari Johnson for the superb…

Festive Artwork – Judy Elizabeth Wilson

We are getting close to the end of our 2016 advent calendar, we hope you have enjoyed it. Todays illustration is by student Judy Elizabeth Wilson. Judy has recently completed her course and below is a lovely testimonial email from her…….

Festive Artwork – Debra Gibson

One of our favourite designs of this year! Stunning artwork by student Debra Gibson.

Festive Artwork – Rob Wilkinson

Fantastic illustration of Rudolph with a very shiny, happy nose, by Rob Wilkinson!

Festive Artwork – Angela Watson

Todays artwork is by student Angela Watson and she has created a wonderful illustration of a little girl ice skating.

Festive Artwork – Ann Hulme

A snowy happy piece today by student Ann Hulme.

Festive Artwork – Rob Wilkinson

Todays funny festive artwork is by student Rob Wilkinson!  

Festive Artwork – Gina Maldonado

This is a very fun and happy illustration by student Gina Maldonado.

Festive Artwork

We absolutely love student Sarah Listers artwork, we are sure she will go far with her illustrations.  

Festive Artwork – Angela Watson

Todays artwork is by student and artist Angela Watson who is studying the Digital Illustration course.  

Festive Artwork – Rob Wilkinson

Superb illustration today by Children’s illustrating student Rob Wilkinson.

Festive Artwork – Su Dore

The illustration below is by artists and student Su Dore. A watercolour, coloured pencil and pencil mix.

Festive Artwork – Rob Wilkinson

Today’s artwork is by Children’s Illustration student Rob Wilkinson.

Festive Artwork – Yvonne Overheul

We love this illustration by Yvonne Overheul. A mixture of Digital and traditional media.

Festive Artwork – Marily Valkijainen

Todays festive post is by student Marily Valkijainen.

Welcome to our Christmas Countdown!

This month we will be featuring students Christmas paintings and drawings. We hope that it gets everyone in the festive spirit! Todays painting is beautiful, it is painted by student Alison Hughes.

Angela Watson – Bored Chickens!

My name is Angela Watson and I’m currently studying the Illustration Diploma with Spencer Hill. I have just received his feedback for assignment 4 and would like to share with you, how making one simple change as suggested by a…

Watercolour Portrait Painting – Ingrid Rugel

A short blog post today as we think the portrait below says more than words can! Its fabulous. This watercolour portrait painting is by student Ingrid Rugel. We hope you like it as much as we do!  

Coloured Pencil Course – Geoff Fielding

Geoff Fielding has recently completed the Coloured Pencil Course with us at the London Art college. The Coloured Pencil Course, like all of our courses, is also an online course. Consequently all of our students, including Geoff, are able to study and draw from…

Painting and Drawing Course – Christine Towers

Christine Towers is currently working on our Online Drawing and Painting Art Course. One of her beautiful watercolours has been submitted as part of the course which you can see below. Christine said at the start of the course… I…

Coloured Pencil Art Online Course – Mike Foley

Mike Foley is studying our Coloured Pencil Art Online Course. Mike said at the start of the course… “I have taken several correspondence art courses in the past. Two “Famous Artists” courses, and one watercolor workshop from “North Light Art School”….

Henry Sherridan Completed The Pet Portraits Course

 Henry Sheridan completed the pet portraits course recently, and the painting below is his final submission. We love the colours Henry has used in his painting, particularly the background which is Full of warmth and life. It allows dogs to…

Still life Mackerel Painting by Pam Cherry

This fabulous still life mackerel painting was created by Pam Cherry. She is studying with tutor Alan Dedman on the Still life Art Course. We absolutely love the painting, its full of life and the fish and paper looks shiny and…

Graphic Design in Art – Panya Sos

Student Panya Sos has been working with Vanessa Weaver on the graphic design in Art diploma course by the London College. We have added three of Panya’s pieces of artwork below for our students and readers to view. Panya has been…

Coloured Pencil Drawing – Kasturi Mukhopadhyay

We love this coloured pencil drawing by Kasturi Mukhopadhyay. We felt it was a great piece to show here on our college news blog. Kasturi has created a very bold and vibrant image which we feel looks very decorative. Kasturi has captured the light…

Cartooning Diploma Course – Allison Tebo

Allison Tebo has been working with John Byrne on our London Art College Cartooning Diploma Course. When Allison enrolled on the Cartooning course she had already completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma course. This allowed her to gain experience in general drawing…

Learning to Paint Eyes – Ingrid Rugel

London Art College student Ingrid Rugel has been learning to paint eyes in watercolour. She is studying with tutor Alan Dedman on the Portrait Painting Course and has produced some stunning studies which you can see below. The colours Ingrid…

Learning to Paint in Oils – Darinka Svircic

Darinka Svircic is learning to paint in oils on our Oil Painting Certificate course. Darinka has created a stunning oil painting of a tree which we have added below for our students and readers to view. We also very much like…

Learning Abstract Oil Painting by Ann Hulme

We have featured Ann’s paintings on our blog in previous months and we love this abstract by her too. Ann paints by mouth and has taken this set of exercises in her stride. She wrote the following about the creation…

Pet Portraits Diploma – Diana Leighton

Diana Leighton has just completed her Pet Portraits Diploma course tutored by Gayle Mason. The painting and preliminary study below was completed for the final assignment of the course. We are thrilled that Diana enjoyed the course and completed it…

Painting and Drawing Diploma Course – David Maidment

This is a fabulous painting by David Maidment who is studying our Painting and Drawing Diploma Course. We love the movement that David has created within the painting along with the fresh cool blue and green colours. Davids tutor Paul Weaver was absolutely…

Landscape Diploma Course – Johan van der Spuy

Johan van der Spuy has been creating some wonderful paintings for the Landscape Diploma Course. We have added just one fo them below and hope that you all find it inspiring. So much to see…..